Meaning metasymbol
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metasymbol


A character or sequence of characters that has a temporary value or meaning for some intermediate purpose.
MR ROBIN C WARNER - 4 May 2020

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metasymbol


Something we'd call a metacharacter except that it's a sequence of more than one character. Generally, the first character in the sequence must be a true metacharacter to get the other characters in the metasymbol to misbehave along with it.
Source: archive.oreilly.com (offline)

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metasymbol


Unicode
Source: perldoc.perl.org

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metasymbol


Something we’d call a metacharacter
Source: perldoc.perl.org

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metasymbol


Often used more specifically to mean the sort of name you might find in a symbol table
Source: perldoc.perl.org





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